Can you believe that Leaftacular was the 24th spectacular ‘Tacular?! Sara and Dan were our lovely hosts as we celebrated all things leafy and good. Here’s what we enjoyed:
- Laura prepped Jamie Oliver's easy sexy (and delicious) salad -- with Mission figs, prosciutto and burrata cheese on arugula
- Special guest, Allison (!), tossed up a light and fresh salad of baby kale, tomatoes, goat cheese and walnuts
- Jeremy and Mei sliced up fragrant tea-smoked duck served with a mango and shiso leaf salad -- no smoke alarms were set off during the making of this dish, hooray!
- Sara and Dan rolled up some Greek domades (rice-stuffed grape leaves) and grilled us a yummy cilantro-marinated flank steak
- Ian and Kate brought Genovese-style tagliatelle -- made with fresh pesto (mmm...garlic) and potatoes
- I brought packets of sticky rice steamed in lotus leaves (AKA lo mai gai) dim sum style -- filled with chicken, Chinese sausage and mushrooms, bamboo shoots and dried shrimp
- Jenn and Daniel scooped out homemade strawberry basil ice cream -- a deliciously unique combination...served in sugar cones no less!
- James brought fresh pineapple and raspberries and two kinds of sorbet, served with a refreshing mint salsa-ish topping and a sweet vanilla-ginger syrup
- Sara and Dan baked up gooey mint brownies (while yummy, some folks were kinda secretly hoping they'd been baked with a different kind of 'herb'...)
Oh, and we drank a bunch too! In addition to wine, we sipped Dan’s 'lowbrow' sangria and minty mojitos.
Pictures can be accessed via the "'Tacular Memories" link on our homepage.
Ayako, Marco, Karina and Christian...we missed you!
Ayako, Marco, Karina and Christian...we missed you!
Our next ‘Tacular will be Cocktacular 5 on Saturday, August
16th at Jeremy and Mei’s. There will be a Brazilian theme, so get ready to don some
thongs and get out your Havaianas!
